- J. BOYD JONES, editor, Evansville; born in Union Township,
Wis. Dec. 21, 1843; his father,
- Ira JONES, was a native of Champaign Co., Ohio, born Jan.
3, 1810; emigrated to Wisconsin in 1840, and located in the township
of Union, where he engaged in improving land for farming purposes,
until his death, which occurred Dec. 19, 1846. J. Boyd, from
the age of 16 years, engaged in teaching school, until 1863,
when he enlisted as musician in the First Brigade, Third Division,
Twentieth Army Corps; served until June 1865; mustered out and
returned to Evansville, where he remained, school teaching, until
April 1879, when he assumed the management and editorship of
the Evansville Review. He married, in Michigan, May 11, 1873,
Miss Ella ROBERTS, a native of Vermont; has one child, born Sept.
13, 1876.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 865.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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